Trip to grandma's house might be wet, windy

Don't look now, but another potential nor'easter is in the forecast — this time for the travel-heavy Thanksgiving week.

ZACH LINDSEY

Don't look now, but another potential nor'easter is in the forecast — this time for the travel-heavy Thanksgiving week.

AccuWeather.com said Wednesday the forecast for the storm is raising travel and coastal flooding concerns.

Depending on the track, areas within reach of the storm span the Interstate 95 corridor from Philadelphia to Boston.

Some snow is possible, if the system brings down colder air from New England, according to the forecast.

The early indications are the storm will not be as cold as the storm that struck last week in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, bringing more than a foot of snow to parts of the region from New Jersey to Connecticut, an AccuWeather.com news release states. For most locations, it looks like a 'rain or no' situation.

The heaviest rain may have trouble backing westward over the central and southern Appalachians.

But some other meteorologists say it may not be as serious of an issue.

"The odds favor a miss off the coast," said Ken Elliott, a meteorologist for WeatherWorks in Hackettstown. That could mean little rain for the area, Elliott said.

However, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday could see heavy east to northeasterly winds, Elliott said.

"Even if (the storm) is well off the coast, that could bring some flooding concerns to coastal areas," Elliott said.

Like Elliott, Mitchell Gaines, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, N.J., said he does not expect temperatures to drop below freezing.

Right now the National Weather Service anticipates a 30 percent chance of inland rain Sunday and Monday. That percent increases to 40 along some coastal sections of New Jersey, Gaines said.

"But that's generally with temperatures well above freezing, which would eliminate any chance for frozen precipitation at this time," Gaines said.

Elliott says the chances of rain on Sunday are low; Gaines says the chances of rain on Tuesday are low. But both agreed that there may be rain on Monday.

"The rain is not anticipated to be heavy at this time," Gaines said. "We're not anticipating anything as strong as a nor'easter or Sandy."